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dolfke - that's three times you've come into this thread to make the same comment.
Why all this buzz?
Because dev kits were out 9 months ago.
Because Rosetta isn't as efficient as native
Because if they're not keeping current on this, then what other performance or security improvements to MacOS are they also not using.
Why all this effort from you apologizing on behalf of Dropbox for slow/lazy/incompetent development.
@djellison — seconding your opinion. We need native support. Not now, not even yesterday, but months ago.
Devs, better get to work before Apple changes to new hardware again.
A native Apple Silicon version looks like a long way ahead. Apple Silicon Macs have tighter security which prevents system extensions (which Dropbox uses) from running until the user boots into Recovery mode and enable them. This makes installing Dropbox more difficult for the average user, which is probably why no native version is available.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl768f7291/mac
I can understand, from a support view that Dropbox is hesitant to have users go through the procedure, but they lack in communication about the reason a native Apple Silicon version does not exist yet. The current version runs OK on my Intel machine, but uses too much resources on my M1 Macbook, but this is also due to having a lot of bloat in the new application which I do not need and if not fixed will probably make me switch to another cloud service, enough choices out there... 🙂
It looks like Dropbox (and other sync services) will 'need' to switch their apps to the File Provider Framework from Apple, which is built in the OS and is also used by iCloud (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider)
I switched to another service, that runs natively on M1 since monthes, offers a comparable kind of service and only take less than 100Mb of Memory. It is apparently possible to do so, but DropBox seems to not be ready for that kind of work.
Come now, you can't say "another service" and not tell us which one! 🙂
I, personally, am setting up (well, have set up) a NextCloud server on a Raspberry Pi and am considering moving the data and functionality for which I use Dropbox to it. It doesn't have some key handy features of Dropbox Pro though (namely smart sync), so I wouldn't recommend it as a Dropbox replacement.
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